Once upon a time, you would throw your old bread to the birds. But in the Netherlands, where an excess of crumbs is feeding a growing scourge of rats, people are starting to turn to massive bread bins instead. More >

The world’s largest unbroken intertidal system of sand and mud flats could sink beneath the waves by the end of the century due to sea level rise and subsidence caused by gas drills funded by Barclays and other international banks. More >

The men and women who built Stonehenge left an indelible mark on the British landscape. However, researchers have discovered that their impact on other aspects of the nation may have been less impressive. More >

A lost city of underground bunkers built by the Nazis on the Dutch coast during the Second World War has been laid bare in these astonishing pictures. The bunkers, tunnels, living quarters and stores run throughout the coastline near The Hague and run deep under the city itself. More >

They left their homes in Central Asia to fight against the German army. Then, dressed in rags, they were taken as prisoners to a Dutch concentration camp. Few now alive remember the 101 mostly Uzbek men who were killed in a forest near Amersfoort in 1942 - and they may well have been forgotten entirely if it had not been for a curious Dutch journalist. More >

'Some people are born teachers. Some people are born footballers. I’m a born burglar,' says Octave Durham, who stole two priceless Vincent van Gogh paintings on the evening of Dec. 7, 2002.
More than 14 years after he and an accomplice clambered onto the roof of the Van Gogh Museum here, broke a window with a sledgehammer and lifted the canvases off the wall, Mr. Durham has finally come clean about his involvement in one of the most infamous postwar art heists. More >

Ahead of the vote, we asked Dutch readers to tell us how immigration has affected their lives and shaped their political beliefs. Over 2,300 people from across the Netherlands responded, reflecting a wide spectrum of backgrounds and political views. More >

Will Brexit and Trump be followed by a Dutch populist upset and then victories for the radical-right in France and Germany? We’ll learn on March 15 whether Geert Wilders wins the general election in the Netherlands. More >

Rotterdam suffers from a bit from the PR problem known as “second city syndrome”: It often gets overshadowed by its bigger sibling, Amsterdam. But each of the two cities has distinctly positive attributes, not to mention a totally different vibe. More >